As we reported previously, plasma alpha-tocopherol concentrations during the 4 milk interventions were significantly lower, and turnover was significantly slower, in participants with MetS than in healthy participants. Moreover, participants with MetS had increased biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation, thereby suggesting that they had increased requirements for alpha-tocopherol.

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In addition, participants with MetS had lower plasma ascorbic acid concentrations despite having eaten similar amounts of vitamin C as were consumed by healthy participants.

The people with MetS in this study were relatively young, average age 32.8. Imagine the needs of someone with MetS in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s? When absorption and metabolism can be further compromised?

I’m back to thinking that a low-dose vitamin-mineral supplement for older people or anyone with Metabolic Syndrome isn’t a bad idea. Unnatural circumstances call for unnatural solutions. But which one? How to trust an industry that resists regulation and that has been found to lie?